Emerging from a state of in-betweenness and transformation embodied in the notion of liminality, Liminal Ecologies delves into the entanglements of human and more-than-human worlds transformed by migration, climate crisis, and shifting geopolitical forces. Unfolding within spaces of transition where geographical, ecological, and conceptual borders blur and reform, the exhibition explores new ways of understanding, adapting to, and engaging with the changing world.
Artists: Andrea Conte (Andreco), Arjuna Neuman & Denise Ferreira da Silva, Ifor Duncan & Stefanos Levidis, Júlia Pontés, Oto Hudec, Yana Kononova
Curated by: Marianna Tsionki & Mariana Cunha
Free shuttle bus
Vienna – Bratislava – Vienna
On Thursday, 27 March 2024, ERSTE Foundation is organising a shuttle bus from Vienna to Bratislava on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Liminal Ecologies.
Meeting point & schedule:
Erste Campus, Karl-Popper-Straße 4, 1100 Vienna
- 16.15 Boarding
- 16.30 Departure on time
- 17.45 Welcome at tranzit.sk by Judit Angel, director tranzit.sk
Opening of the exhibition Liminal Ecologies with the following programme: - 18.00 Media lecture by the artist duo Ifor Duncan & Stefanos Levidis (approx. 30 min.)
- 18.45 Exhibition tour with the curators Marianna Tsionki & Mariana Cunha as well as the artists Andrea Conte (Andreco), Ifor Duncan & Stefanos and Oto Hudec (approx. 20 min.)
- 20.15 Departure from Bratislava to Vienna
- 21.15 Approx. arrival back in Vienna at Erste Campus
Registration closes on 24 March 2025. Admission free. Please bring your passport or ID card for the trip!
Register here!
For information please contact heide.wihrheim@erstestiftung.org
Through film, photography, sculpture, and multimedia installations, Liminal Ecologies gathers works that expose the necropolitics of border regimes and imagine new forms of multispecies coexistence, where survival is intertwined across fragile yet generative terrains.
Tracing these liminal spaces,water flows through the exhibition as metaphor and material force—rivers weaponized as instruments of state control, oceans as vast thresholds of loss and possibility, rain as a harbinger of both abundance and devastation and rewilding attempts over flooded ravines. In extractive and war-torn landscapes, water carries the scars of exploitation, yet it also holds the power to reshape and renew.
Programme during the opening on 27 March
6.00-6.35 pm
Media lecture by Ifor Duncan & Stefanos Levidis
6.45-7.05 pm
Exhibition tour with the curators, Andrea Conte (Andreco), Ifor Duncan & Stefanos and Oto Hudec
Inhabiting the fluidity of liminal ecologies, the exhibition invites us to rethink divisions and interconnections. Weaving together urgency and possibility, it envisions ways of navigating unstable ground, opening spaces for critical reflection and resistance, and imagining futures that defy the constraints of borders.
Marianna Tsionki is an art theorist and curator working at the intersection of contemporary art, ecology and technology. She is Associate Professor and University Curator at Leeds Arts University. Her curatorial projects and writing have focused on the Anthropocene’s ever-evolving social and ecological transformations, global ecologies of resource exploitation and humanity’s post-industrial relationship with nature.
Mariana Cunha is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Westminster/CREAM. Her theoretical and curatorial research explores the epistemic and decolonial potentialities of ecological practices in contemporary art and moving images from the Global South.
ERSTE Foundation is main partner of tranzit. Kindly supported by Leeds Arts University and CREAM (Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media), University of Westminster. Media partners: Artalk.info, Flash Art CZ & SK, Kapitál, GoOut.net
Cover image: Flooded graves in the former migrant cemetery at Sidiro, Ifor Duncan and Stefanos Levidis, 2019.
